News of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Forum

Hi,

I hope that someone in this forum will be able to provide his advice or experience or knowledge.

I am 25 years old, student in university, on my way for my first degree.

My problem is very difficult, it has started since I was in late stage of elementary school and it continue with e to high school and to the university where I study today.

The problem is that many fears who are ...

For as long as I can remember I've been a scratcher. I mainly scratch my head and neck but it's not necessarily limited to that. And no, it's not dandruff or anything like that.
I think it's a compulsive thing. My family used to tell me I did it all the time and it drove them nuts, and my husband tells me I even do it in my sleep.
It's like whatever's happening inside my ...

ever since i was a kid i cant stop bout death and getting sick,i wash my hands like 15 times a day even when i finish to take a baths or when finish using my own computer..this idea of getting sick or infected by a strange desiase is just keeps me from sleeping at nights cancer, hiv,skin rash, even rabies these last one drove me crazy for almost i yr that i had to see ...

it started about three weeks ago.
i don't really know how it started but i thing it went like this.
a mate of me came to sleep (like there have been so many).
i the evening i dint really thought about me being gay.
i do remember a thought:
i will sit a little away from him because otherwise it is a bit gay.
but nothing more.

the day after that when he went home. ...

I Interview with BBC international about my OCD and how I overcame(they have 40 million listeners so happy about that! (ps when you get to the site just listen now and forward to 19 minutes to hear mine as two other guests on before me.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fvlf1#synopsis
Extraordinary personal stories!

Some people tell me to stop ocing stop ocing it goes over and over my head.I am in a mental group home for the mentally disabled.And I have a guy with classic autism.And anytime he bumps into me they blame it on me and say oh thats his disability.But when I oc they say stop ocing or you won't be able to do this or that. They never take the time to help me they ...

I don't know if it is OCD but if it isn't then I am a disgusting person.

I started having some obsessive thoughts that really bothered me - I kept having sexual thoughts about my father. I am ashamed to even type that because I feel like a sick person. Ewww... who has those thoughts? I obviously have them most when I am having sexual thoughts to start with which is usually when I am ...

I've been writing stories and creating/drawing/writing about fictional characters for as long as I can remember (not that I've actually ever finished any). However, I'm noticing more and more that, whenever I'm stressed with work or people, I retreat to my laptop and write out fantasy scenarios for these characters I've created, and it's an incredible stress reliever. It's getting obsessive, to the point where I get really agitated and upset if I haven't written ...

Hi All,

I'm a 32 year old male with I hope a servere form of HOCD (I am diagnosed with OCD). I can not stop thinking that I am gay and I hate it. I realy do not want to be it. I got a very sweet girlfriend which I love to death and a newborn daughter 3 weeks old.

I always had some sort of obsession, at first I thought was ugly and could ...

My paranoid tendencies, which I believe are a large part of my OCD (paranoid about poisoning, contaminations, and etc.) are ruining my relationship. I recognize that these are a problem, and that not being able to eat anything she could have potentially contaminated (anything unopened, in the fridge, etc.), fearing she poisoned the BATHTUB...are just insane and ridiculous, but they are not things I can seem to easily contain.

Needless to say, they are virtually ...